Men Quotes - Page 431

I danced from the moment I could stand.

When a person begins to yell during an argument, it is a tip-off that he is unsure of himself.

When she is happy, she can't stop talking, when she is sad she doesn't say a word.

In a world where change is inevitable and continuous, the need to achieve that change without violence is essential for survival.

Freemasonry is a moral order, instituted by virtuous men, with the praiseworthy design of recalling to our remembrance the most sublime truths, in the midst of the most innocent and social pleasures, founded on liberality, brotherly love and charity.

Nothing threatens freedom of the personality and the meaning of life like war, poverty, terror. But there are also indirect and only slightly more remote dangers. One of these is the stupefaction of man (the "gray mass," to use the cynical term of bourgeois prognosticators) by mass culture with its intentional or commercially motivated lowering of intellectual level and content, with its stress on entertainment or utilitarianism, and with its carefully protective censorship.

are you certain that a man's life begins with his birth?

We should recognize that women become mothers the moment they are pregnant.

I'm called the Godfather [of Ecstacy] because I published for the first time information about its effects in man. I feel content with the title. MDMA is a beautiful drug.

Open your eyes and look for some man, or some work for the sake of men, which needs a little time, a little friendship, a little sympathy, a little sociability, a little human toil....It is needed in every nook and corner. Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.

We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.

Stupidity is a personal achievement which transcends national boundaries.

Base men who prosper are unenviable.

But all this world is like a tale we hear - Men's evil, and their glory, disappear.

Men of success meet with tragedy. It was the will of God that I won the Olympics, and it was the will of God that I met with my accident. I accepted those victories as I accept this tragedy. I have to accept both circumstances as facts of life and live happily.

The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history.

Deliver me from all evildoers that talk nothing but sickness and failure. Grant me the companionship of men who think success and men who work for it. Loan me associates who cheerfully face the problems of a day and try hard to overcome them. Relieve me of all cynics and critics. Give me good health and the strength to be of real service to the world, and I'll get all that's good for me, and will what's left to those who want it.

I mean to live my life an obedient man, but obedient to God, subservient to the wisdom of my ancestors; never to the authority of political truths arrived at yesterday at the voting booth.

It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll; I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul.

No sort of defense is needed for preaching outdoors, but it would take a very strong argument to prove that a man who has never preached beyond the walls of his meetinghouse has done his duty. A defense is required for services within buildings rather than for worship outside of them.

The Saint is a man who disciplines his ego. The Sage is a man who rids himself of his ego.

A man who is seeking for realization is not only going around searching for his spectacles without realizing that they are on his nose all the time, but also were he not actually looking through them he would not be able to see what he is looking for!

How far have you walked for men who've never held your feet in their laps?

People will always try to stop you from doing the right thing if it is unconventional.

The chief problem in any community cursed with crime is not the punishment of the criminals, but the preventing of the young from being trained to crime.